Oh, one more thing... Fundamentalists are always hard creationists but then I'm using the term "fundamentalist" in the technical sense--not as it's commonly used by the media. Fundamentalism (the term comes from a publication series by the Niagara Bible Conference in I think 1917), refers to a reading of the Bible as "inerrant"--divinely guided to be without error. Although some relatively strong minds such as J. Gresham Machen were associated with the movement in its early stages, it has come to be associated (not always correctly) with a literalist hermeneutic. Consequently, fundamentalists are hard-core creationists. In eschatology they tend to be "pre-millenial" and usually "pre-tribulational" (with a few exceptions) though many evangelicals also hold to these views. The eschatology appears to come mainly from notes in the Scofield Reference Bible. A final major distinction: self-proclaimed contemporary fundamentalists (such as those at BJU) believe in "separation"; a refusal to associate with those who they believe associate with false belief. Thus BJ's refusal to hang out with Billy Graham--this doctrine, combined with that of inerrancy appear to be the hallmarks of contemporary fundamentalism (and technically Oral Roberts is not a fundamentalist--though Jerry Falwell is; in other words it is not a synonym for the religious right). Nathan Freeburg
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